45 Quick Traffic Hacks That Will Boost Your Website
I always advocate the idea of taking a step back to see the larger picture. When it comes to digital marketing, this is a crucial step â as it can easily point out what is currently missing from the approach youâre implementing for your website. Â
  Always make sure youâve got the big picture in mind, however complicated this may seem sometimes. While keeping this in mind, todayâs post is going to offer you a series of tips that can boost your traffic, and donât interfere with your current strategies. This article will present you an extensive list of hacks that you can implement on your website to drive more traffic to your website â with minimal work and immediate results.  Â
 Drop the Retargeting Pixel on Users Who Engage with Your Content
Use a Content Delivery Network to Promote Posts Based on Usersâ Locations
Focus Your Efforts Only on Social Media Platforms that Work for Your Business
Offer Deals to Universities to Get Listed on .edu Sites
Use Schema Microdata to Facilitate Website Indexing
Check out Unexploited Social Media for a Reinvigorating Marketing Approach
Debunk a Common Perspective in Your Niche and Prove Itâs a Myth
Post Evergreen Content from Your Blog to LinkedIn Regularly
Join Niched Twitter Lists to Spread Your Message to a Targeted Audience
Repurpose Long Form Content into SlideShare Presentations
Tag & Quote the People that Comment on Your site on Social Media
Make a Creative Unboxing Youtube Video of Your Product
Transcribe Your Video Content to Target a Broader Audience
Use Alltop (or Other Blog Aggregators) to Get Listed as an Authoritative Source
Reschedule Popular Tweets in Your Industry on Buffer
Suggest Your Content on a Popular Scoop It Page to Get Colossal Targeted Exposure
Self-Publish Kindle Books and Link to Your Site
Upload a Screencast Product Demo on Your Website to Hook First-Time Visitors
Use Tooltipster to Make Every Fragment of Text Easily Shareable
Write Testimonials for Popular Products in Your Niche for Authority Links & Exposure
Turn Your Infographics into In-depth Articles & Rank on More Keywords
Use a PR Prank as a Link Building Tactic
Optimize Your TTFB to Improve User Experience
Create an Instagram Photo Contest to Exploit a 200 Million Users Network
Pin Tweets that Address Your Readerâs Needs, Not Your Marketing Strategy
Address a Complementary Niche with Similar Interests to Your Read#ers
Get Yourself Featured on Product Hunt for Expert Feedback
Send Personal Webinar Registration Emails to Unengaged Prospects
Use List Posts as Much as Possible â Theyâre Easy to Read & Tweet
Use LinkedIn Groups to Announce Improvements to Targeted Audiences
Involve Readers in Your Content Marketing with a Crowd Sourced Post
Rank for Video Content Posting Optimized Youtube Videos Regularly
Make People Curious About You & Boost Your Traffic with a Funny Product or Landing Page
Feature Influencers in Your SlideShare Content to Get It Shared
Tag Influencers on Twitter to Let Them Know You Mentioned Them
Find a Unique Personal Tone that Nobody in the Niche Has Adopted Yet
Marry Evergreen Content with Trending Posts to Boost Visibility
Get a Column on an Industry Publication
Find Partners in Your Industry
Tell Your Brand Story Through an Honest Appeal to Emotion
Pitch Your Business to Influencers on Hacker News
Post Questions that Make People Use Their Pride/Creativity/Ego
Have Social Media Buttons in Your Email Newsletter
Grow your Email List on a Daily Basis
Write a Response Post to Something/Someone Popular in the Niche
 1. Drop the Retargeting Pixel on Users Who Engage with Your Content
 Retargeting can be used both very rightly and very wrongly, and the difference makes all the money (also literally). Whenever you drop pixels on users, try to make sure that you take the bounce rate into consideration. This way, your custom audience will be more targeted and your overall results will be better, after just one little change, as Claire Pelletreau did. It is as simple as adding code to your website.
  Otherwise, youâll be spending a lot of energy on people who had no interest in your content in the first place. So maybe you should wait for a few seconds before dropping the pixel to generate the retargeting process. Â
 2. Use a Content Delivery Network to Promote Posts Based on Usersâ Locations
 There are numerous benefits to be technical. In this context, theyâre mostly blocking SQL injections and malicious bots. However, thereâs a marketing advantage to this as well. Brian Jackson offers more than these two reasons. Its main marketing purpose is being able to live to the expectations of your never-settling customers. He said that when delivered quality content based on location, he experienced increased website traffic thanks to the improvement in responsiveness, which is an evergreen technique.Â
  Your website will be more optimized and it will work faster, contributing significantly to the overall user experience which, as we can all agree, is something to aim for. Â
 3. Focus Your Efforts Only on Social Media Platforms that Work for Your Business
 Thereâs a place and a time for everything. So the question remains: what do you do if youâve done everything possible by the book to promote your page and it still doesnât work? You kill it. Copyblogger did it with their Facebook page. After all, itâs not strategically appropriate to invest a huge amount of time and resources into something that refuses to comply with the rules of ROI.
  In her article, Erika Napoletano said something I can only agree with: fan numbers donât mean anything if theyâre not accompanied by engagement. So focus on what works, instead. Â
 4. Offer Deals to Universities to Get Listed on .edu Sites
 Authority links and brand mentions contribute a great deal to a businessâ reputation and visibility. Itâs a lot easier to get notoriety when youâre featured on reputable websites. And universities are a great networking source at the same time, the links from an educational website have a very powerful authority. From young, creative minds who deserve an internship to associate lecturers full of academic insight, universities are the place to be.
  Here, the possibilities are endless. How you choose to materialize this tip depends both on your business model and financial possibilities. The easiest way is asking the university you graduated from to mention you as a successful alumnus, now active in the entrepreneurial field.
 Not everyone is going to be able to give away scholarships (weâre not all Google), but most of us could easily create a course for students who would like to learn about case studies in your niche. The academic mediation between the theoretical field and your practical experience works best together when it comes to the educational experience. Â
 5. Use Schema Microdata to Facilitate Website Indexing
 Schema is a type of microdata that helps search engines parse and interpret the info on your website in a more effective and contextual manner, helping both you and the potential customers/readers who perform search queries. Using schema microdata can help you appear in the knowledge graph, gain beta releases and having advantages in AMP, Google News, etc. and help Google to show contextual results from your website. And as a result to all that, it increases the traffic to your site.
  The practice helps the search engines crawl more efficiently and your visibility can register a boost after introducing it. One very honest white-hat strategy, this hack works best for the long term of your business, just like in the example below from Dan Shewan. This way, the information on your website is better parsed and interpreted by the search engines, and you are most likely to see a boost in the overall visibility of your website. Â
 6. Check out Unexploited Social Media for a Reinvigorating Marketing Approach
 StumbleUpon, Taboola, Launchbit, and Outbrain, Pinterest â theyâre all great ideas for content promotion. These social media websites may not be as popular as Twitter and Facebook, and maybe this is why they work so great when it comes to marketing objectives â because you can address more specific niches, with a higher informational intent and which are more prone to be convinced that your business is worth giving a try.
  Take the example above of an article published on StumbleUpon. If youâve got catchy articles and high-quality pictures, Taboola and Outbrain are the ones you should use. They are not like any other social media website, they offer behavioral targeting to help publishers make their content noticed. They can be used very easily to syndicate your content. If you decide to use this technique, the platforms will share the organic content on other websites and it might appear in different sections such as sponsored content or recommended content.Â
  7. Debunk a Common Perspective in Your Niche and Prove Itâs a Myth
 Some things we take for granted. Weâre so used to hearing them that not only wonât we try to contradict people who state them, but weâre starting to slowly accept them as truths. And the reader does the same. Thatâs a great start for a traffic idea, right? When everyoneâs started to accept something as being true, the voice of those that donât believe it will soon stand out. Some time ago, we documented on the topic regarding the SEO industry being dead. Everybody has been talking along the years about it, and even some authoritative sources were starting to drift away.
  We wrote an article to publicly state the opposite. Of course, you should keep a neutral voice in order to be reliable as a source, and moderation is the key to any long-term feasible approach. But, the article wasnât just shared across social media, it also had almost 40 comments. This proves once more, that conflicting opinions bring visibility and creates viral content.
 8. Post Evergreen Content from Your Blog to LinkedIn Regularly
 Dorie Clark admitted being a big fan of this tip in a roundup post. If you think of it, LinkedIn is a pretty natural environment for evergreen content, such as in the example below.
  Itâs the place where people will always look for specific information. And evergreen content can be a constant source of traffic. That happens because the articles have a better value than your generic blog post you find on the web, being directly related to the professionals who documented them. Making yourself visible on a website where everybody has the same goal and getting in touch with relevant people in the industry, means a lot when it comes to your future targeted traffic. So start small, and make changes that will echo in terms of visibility even years from now.
 Posting evergreen articles on LinkedIn increases your website traffic because it connects organically the content you published with the professionals behind the ideas. Â
 9. Join Niched Twitter Lists to Spread Your Message to a Targeted Audience
 There are few things that can motivate us more than being in the right place at the right time. However, most of the times, for us marketers, this is not something that luck is responsible for. We have to make it happen. And one of the places where things happen with a vicarious rhythm are Twitter lists. Being a part of them allows you to see what happens in your niche and to share (relevant!) content with a highly niched audience, who will probably take interest in your cause.
  Kevan Lee told the story of Twitter listing and all the amazing results you can achieve when you take all the variables into account. For instance, thereâs this Social Media list from Adweek, with millions of members and fans. Imagine you have the possibility to share content with 2, 3 or 5 million people interested in your niche, just because youâve created one powerful connection with the person who put you on that list. How great of an opportunity is that? Â
 10. Repurpose Long Form Content into SlideShare Presentations
Another great example of traffic generators is repurposing long-form content into presentations. According to Lena Prickett, an idea turned in 15 ways around the interests of the readers is as valuable as 15 ideas, assuming youâre doing the promotion responsibly. SlideShare has a huge audience and less than 1 percent of marketers manage to address their audience, which makes it all the more available as a source when it comes to spreading your content. Â
 Take the Coschedule example above.
  The original article had 170 social shares. However, the SlideShare presentation brought another 100.
  Itâs almost always appropriate to repurpose website content, and it makes working on an in-depth piece more profitable, as it gives you the chance to actually get substantial and relevant traffic for the time youâve spent documenting your posts.
 The time difference of repurposing content is small enough to make it worth every minute, as it doesnât even come close to the amount of time it takes to create new content that appeals. Of course, this means that maybe itâs time you started thinking of your topics as ideas that have to fit into more than just one universal presentation form. Â
 11. Tag & Quote the People that Comment on Your Site on Social Media
 Tagging people that commented on your site on social media brings you easy traffic. Think of it. People whoâve commented have spent enough time on your blog as to have a few unanswered questions. It means theyâre already engaged. They know about your brand, are interested in the content youâre providing, and theyâre always striving to be documented on whatâs happening in the niche. Â
  Kevin Duncan calls this the âhowdy, neighborâ technique, and it basically means that you should be friendly with you acquaintances online. Just like people from the small towns that welcomed a new neighbor. It doesnât involve more than saying thanks once in a while and welcoming people properly. Â
   The results from his experiment were astonishing in terms of engagement.
  Try it out and see the results for yourself! Â
 12. Make a Creative Unboxing Youtube Video of Your Product
 Itâs not necessary to have a material product when youâre considering creative unboxing. IKEA had a great idea of the book, where they presented their catalog â a hardcover book â as a gadget.
  The entire purpose of the unboxing video is to have as many views as possible and increase your brand memorability, even if itâs a little complimentary to your product instead of an unboxing of the product itself. But make it easy to understand. Needless to say, if you do have a material product as part of your business, the unboxing video is going to be even easier to make and will serve informational needs. Â
 13. Transcribe Your Video Content to Target a Broader Audience
 Itâs only appropriate to make sure that all kinds of prospects with very different schedules will be able to follow your content. The form in which your content is presented is only an instrument thatâs meant to facilitate interaction, not to block it.
  Transcribing your video content may come in handy, especially for that type of audience that doesnât have enough mobile data to access your video on the spot (and can forget until they get home) or is in a very boring meeting and cannot play it out loud, but would be able to read it. Be prepared for these kinds of situations. Not to mention the ranking. You can get higher rankings, as you help the search engine contextualize the content of the video and the complexity of your endeavor. Â
 14. Use Alltop (or Other Blog Aggregators) to Get Listed as an Authoritative Source
 Alltop is an authoritative source where people browse information, sorting it in a manner thatâs dedicated to displaying the most recent news. The reason why people use it is that itâs practical and it filters the authoritative sources that would usually come up in a search engine, providing its users with fresh articles. It is a great source for driving traffic.Â
   As a publisher or a site owner, as Donna Maria Coles Johnson puts it, youâd like to be listed on a blog aggregator because it helps promoting your content and it will bring a lot of traffic, in time. The advantage is being part of a network where people come to look for information, which is why itâs advised to maintain relevance. Â
 15. Reschedule Popular Tweets in Your Industry on Buffer
 Nobody likes to follow a leader who keeps yapping about himself. Keep this in mind when youâre posting on social media. Curating information that you find essential, funny or provoking is equally important as creating new content. Sometimes, itâs even more important.
  Start a blogger outreach campaign. Associating yourself with influential people creates a slippery slope from which you may be getting out with hundreds of new followers, who noticed you on the influencerâs page with the retweets, and have decided to see what youâre up to. Never underestimate the potential of networking done right, and be patient when starting it. Â
 16. Suggest Your Content on a Popular Scoop It Page to Get Colossal Targeted Exposure
 We all get attached to the content weâre writing. Itâs part of the job description. It is mostly because weâre passionate about our work. But not all of it is always relevant for some peopleâs informational needs. However, there are situations where parts of our content could be cured into something that addresses a slightly different audience than ours.
  The great news about this tip is that it only takes a few minutes. Some of the Scoop It pages have hundreds of active followers, who represent niched audiences, as Gabriella Sannino also suggested in her post. She suggests content that it is appropriate and related to the subject of the community because that type of content will be generating traffic for your website, not to mention networking opportunities.Â
 17. Self-Publish Kindle Books and Link to Your Site
 Itâs not uncommon to have a lot of old (but still reliable) content that doesnât generate too much traffic anymore. Along with actively promoting it on social media from time to time, you can also turn it into a book â maybe add a few updates to the case studies you were writing two or three years ago, and then publish it.
   And Iâm not just suggesting this because of the link to your website, or the profile description that is going to position you better on the web, although theyâre pretty good points, as David Kudler advocates. Most of the people who are actively interested in reading on a niched topic are also more and more devoted to materials that lack the hyper-connectivity that makes the web so popular. that happens because it helps them focus.
 In other words, you may not be a Kindle bestseller, but youâll know two things about the audience youâll attract: you share the same passion and they have the patience to read, all of these while re-engaging old content in the marketing scheme. Â
 18. Upload a Screencast Product Demo on Your Website to Hook First-Time Visitors
 Visuals draw our attention and everybody agrees with that. Instead of letting your prospects roam around your website aimlessly, you can just upload a screencast on your website and let them have the information delivered in an eye-candy manner, that will also increase the memorability rate.
  As Epipheo did, and they had over 50,000 Youtube views, which is a great number for a company with an average of 7,000 Twitter followers. Â
 19. Use Tooltipster to Make Every Fragment of Text Easily Shareable
 Tooltipster is a handy tool you can use whenever you wish to make HTML improvements in your blogâs functionality. Many times, the reason why people donât share useful content is because theyâre discouraged by the layout of the website. After you took care of this, you can install the Highlight and Share plugin extension to encourage sharing with your readers as well.
  This is why your blog should be a sharing-friendly environment, where you display the numbers of shares on different social media platforms and you encourage even more sharing through a tool that will allow sharing easily. If youâve just published a piece of content that youâve been working on for a week, maybe you wouldnât like to see it lose any kind of traffic and engagement after a few days, maybe fewer than it took you to create it.
 20. Write Testimonials for Popular Products in Your Niche for Authority Links & Exposure
 Endorsement is powerful. It will always be because it works on a principle thatâs guiding us all through life, credibility transfer. Of course, the more authoritative and competent the source is in the industry that it endorses, the more credibility it transfers. However, this works wonders in reverse as well. The endorser becomes endorsed by the product, in our case.
  This is, again, a psychological positioning trick. Whenever you access the website of a product or service and you reach the testimonials page, youâll think that the clients are not only the most representative the service owner has in mind, but the most authoritative as well. If youâre doing the outreach rightly and contact companies that are similar to your interests and areas of expertise, then youâve got yourself some good, steady traffic going on, even if youâre not the most popular in the niche. Â
 21. Turn Your Infographics into In-depth Articles & Rank on More Keywords
 Infographics are the end-medium when it comes to promoting content visually to increase engagement. Still, they will have better ranking if you boost them with content, to help the search engines associate the images with the content.
  So the question becomes: what do you do when the social media hype youâve created with your infographic starts to fade away? Clearly, you cannot just leave it at that. After all, youâve spent a large amount of time in putting the infographic together. To not to waste the energy, you can repurpose the content of the infographic into a blog post, just like Killer Infographics suggests. Â
 22. Use a PR Prank as a Link Building Tactic
 Duolingo is a website thatâs destined to helping people learn foreign languages. On the 1st of April, they created a prank product, the pillow that helps you learn a language overnight. Â
   The prank was very well received on the web and it got a lot of quality links for the page. Â
   Not to mention that it boosted the entire backlink performance of the domain, getting the website to an entirely new high number of links/referring domains in their history.
  PR pranks are useful in terms of notoriety as well, not just traffic and backlinks as they allow you to build relationships with influencers and position you as a creative agent on your market. Â
 23. Optimize Your TTFB to Improve User Experience
 Website speed is one important factor when it comes to user experience and to visitors re-returning to your website. And organic traffic, now more than ever, is not something we can afford to take for granted.
  This is when we have to get a little technical in order to make sure that weâre ranking properly. Assuming youâre reading this, probably ranking is one of your priorities. And the Time to First Bite has a contribution in ranking. Mark Scott stresses that the exact definition of website speed is quite ambiguous online, and he couldnât be more right. Yet, even if thereâs some debate going on about it, TTFB still matters and you can use instruments to measure the extent to which youâve done a great job until now. Â
 24. Create an Instagram Photo Contest to Exploit a 200 Million Users Network
 Someone I particularly like when it comes to Instagram engagement is the Cluse shop for womenâs watches and jewelry. Theyâre pretty popular and always dedicated to building more search traffic and create engagement on social media.
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 They are collaborating with lots of ambassadors and have various giveaways on their social platforms. One of their contest created on Instagram increased the brandâs engagement, and itâs not even that hard to host it, especially when itâs crucial to have engaged followers on every social media platform that can speak for your brand. They are sharing lots of posts, engage with bloggers and fashion icons on Instagram and publish high-quality pictures with vivid colors.Â
 25. Pin Tweets that Address Your Readerâs Needs, Not Your Marketing Strategy
 Thereâs something great about web, and thatâs peopleâs availability when it comes to sharing information. You can find how-to articles and tutorials about pretty much everything. And, more importantly, you can use them in shaping your marketing strategy. For instance, the pinned tweet. Pauline Cabrera writes about this possibility in a mini-how-to article, letting you know about everything you need to know if you want to get your tweets pinned.
  Donât just use this option to promote yourself better, but give something to the community instead. Try writing about something that would instantly hook the reader instead of something youâd really like them to know about, and watch your engagement rate increase. Â
 26. Address a Complementary Niche with Similar Interests to Your Readers
 Content expansion can be a useful tool when youâre trying to address more potential readers. The advantages of it range from a better and more dynamic audience to a dramatic increase in leads and brand recognition. Powellâs Books is a bookstore in Oregon. And people are mad about it. Aside from having an offline business that addresses a certain type of audience, theyâve been active online for a while.
  Their tweets often engage the entire artistic community and everything that creates hype on the web, addressing a target who wouldnât necessarily spend their free time reading for leisure. Plus, many of the followers donât even live somewhere close, so theyâre clearly part of a different niche, enjoying something distinctive as much as the next reader.
 Being sociable and friendly can get you far, as long as you know how to adapt your strategy as to address people who wouldnât normally consider entering a bookstore and, more importantly, speaking like a person, not like a brand representative. Â
 27. Get Yourself Featured on Product Hunt for Expert Feedback
 Danny Postma tells the story of how he was featured on Product Hunt. Itâs not easy to start your own business, and itâs harder to promote it among other people who have the same goal as you. Â
  New projects have the advantage of being full of possibilities and, if promoted properly, they can propel the entire startup that created them. And, of course, theyâre flexible, and Product Hunt is a great place with professionals always willing to take 5 minutes of their time and give you actionable tips.
  And sometimes increase traffic website, if youâre lucky.
 28. Send Personal Webinar Registration Emails to Unengaged Prospects
 Whenever a trend catches some popularity and everybody starts doing it, it becomes harder and harder for the people actually using the strategy properly to stand out from the crowd, as ironic as it sounds. So happened with webinars. Itâs almost impossible to get through a day (even Sunday) without getting at least one webinar invite.
  It gets even harder when the prospects youâre trying to engage are slipping away. But itâs more challenging, at the same time. Joanna Wiebe went through the webinar-invite strategies in terms of what works and what doesnât. Being personal is the first thing, along with writing from an individual point of view. Just mentioning names isnât enough (although itâs a good start). But writing from your standpoint to the prospectsâ helps them realize the benefits of engaging with your brand. Â
 29. Use List Posts as Much as Possible â Theyâre Easy to Read & Tweet
 People like visually organized content because it helps them focus on the relevant aspects of an article, even when we skim through content. And admitting weâre doing it means admitting our readers are doing it as well. Â
  Lists are a quick fix to this. They are increasing website traffic, as their main purpose is to guide the reader through the content, to get to the parts heâs really interested in, the ones heâll carefully read. You just throw in a serious writer, and a topic with a lot of potential and buzz around it. Then organize it in the form of a list, and youâve got yourself a traffic winner. Â
 30. Use LinkedIn Groups to Announce Improvements to Targeted Audiences
 Joshua Rodriguez explained the proper way of using LinkedIn groups. Itâs not something you do in a minute, itâs true (it doesnât take you more than half an hour to get started either). It implies checking the interests of the groups youâre part of to make sure youâre not spammy or redundant.
   Depending on their informational needs and the extent to which they need to be notified (itâs enough for some to hear twice a month about your brand, while others would miss you if you didnât post 3 times a day). Keeping appropriateness cannot be done empirically (or it can, but itâs not strategically constructive). So use spreadsheets. Write everything down and keep track of your improvements: it helps both morale and revenue! Â
 31. Involve Readers in Your Content Marketing with a Crowd Sourced Post
 And mix them up a little. Combine powerful influencers with regular readers, to create an idea of a reliable source who is capable of seeing the message behind the popularity â and, ultimately, to gather as many people as possible with pertinent solutions to the issues youâre proposing for debate.
  Sometimes itâs not all social media (I canât believe Iâm saying this myself), as there are more types of going through information. I may just find it highly useful and informative, but maybe my friends are not as thrilled about the topic as I am. However, some crowd-sourced infographics donât necessarily bring a spike in social media, but they do increase on-page engagement and the traffic itself has a boom. Matthew Woodward tried this strategy in the example above, and the results were encouraging. Â
 32. Rank for Video Content Posting Optimized Youtube Videos Regularly
 But in order to achieve success, youâll have to aim high. The best solution in video ranking, just like in life, is persistence. Uploading content regularly with the only purpose of satisfying a need of your viewers. Moreover, the more descriptive and elaborate the video title and descriptions are, the better youâre going to rank (and convince), the more views youâll have.
 Take the example of Fitness Blender, a Youtube channel with fitness tutorials. Their video titles are explanatory and exhaustive using long tail keywords, while also building a sense of expectation in the viewer that they are going to satisfy, delivering precisely what they promised to. In a world where everybody went crazy about workout, this channel manages to have over 3 million subscribers organically through correct positioning that generates word of mouth.
  Itâs true that one hour worth of videos is uploaded every minute on Youtube, but at the same time, more than 3 billion hours are watched each month, which is about 350 thousand years. Yes, thatâs how much we like video content, because itâs easy to go through and it allows us to focus on another complementary activity, making it times more efficient than reading.
 There are many things that you can do to grow your reputation as an online source. Building brand awareness can face you with a number of opportunities that you just cannot miss. Ranking for video content is one of them.   Â
  33. Make People Curious About You & Boost Your Traffic with a Funny Product or Landing Page
 An interesting example of making people curious about you and getting traffic for your website was made popular by James Norquay. Itâs about Virgin Mobile Australia, who launched a campaign called âdrunk dialingâ, which was for an app they made.
  The soft would simply allow you to block a person that you have the bad habit of texting or calling while drunk whenever you go out and drink, only to unblock the contacts the following morning. This way, you would be sure that drunk dialing is not a problem in Australia (where the campaign origins) anymore. The campaign wasnât only efficient for people missing their exes, but from a marketing point of view as well, increasing brand loyalty and building traffic. Â
 34. Feature Influencers in Your SlideShare Content to Get It Shared
 Most of the times, getting noticed cannot happen easily even if youâre relevant and hard working. But you can help your website using SlideShareâs. It is a great platform at your service, as often stated in the industry. Itâs partly because itâs very authoritative, partly because it has a lot of daily views and partly because its users are interested in high-quality content and are willing to come back for more if you rise to their expectations.
   Promoting content on SlideShareâs a great way to start spinning the wheel. Of course, youâll have to create a complete profile in order to be able to generate leads for more than 15 minutes after youâve published the content. Include links in the presentations and provide the necessary contact information in order to be reachable.
 The platform has a huge capacity of adaptability to your needs. It allows you to do anything, including forms that readers would have to complete to access your restricted piece of content. And thatâs because it is a serious source to become popular. It would be simply wrong not to address SlideShareâs gigantic audience. Â
 35. Tag Influencers on Twitter to Let Them Know You Mentioned Them
 Another proven strategy to increase your blogâs traffic comes from influencers. Engagement matters a lot when it comes to creating long-term relationships on social media. And it doesnât have to be because youâre co-interested in increasing the number of followers, it doesnât have to be a marketing objective. Sometimes you can mention them in your blog posts, and get their attention via Twitter, or send them an appreciation email. Many people in any industry already apply this as something organic, not making a big deal out of it. Take Sujan Patel, for example.
  Follow people who you like reading updates from, and who inspire you. Donât think of social media as a corporate way of making money out of the blue, but as an opportunity to connect with people whoâve got the same interests as you do. No more than 20 years ago this was impossible. How cool is it to have this chance? Just let people know when youâve got a new crush on a niched social media celebrity. You can never know where engagement comes from.  Â
 36. Find a Unique and Personal Tone that Nobody in the Niche Has Adopted Yet
 Iâm sure itâs not the first time you come across this type of advice. And itâs usually followed by a philosophy about consumers and society and what makes an article popular. Well, Iâm not going to drag you to that pitfall of idealist conversations again. Weâre going to be practical about this. Weâre going to talk about examples.
  Mark Manson activates in an industry where itâs hard to make your voice stand out, personal development. And although he publishes frequently now, he didnât always do this. He used to post a couple of articles a year and, to his surprise, without much investment, they produced thousands of views and shares on social media.
 Iâm not saying weâre all that guy, itâs hardly the lesson here. But whenever I see someone who manages to rise above his overly crowded niche, I think itâs possible for all of us to do the same. Despite being about a motivational writer, this is not a motivational tip. Itâs an actionable one: the differences between what the niche provides in terms of writing tone and how you can stand out are completely up to you and your dedication. It goes without saying that having a skillset in this direction helps a lot, but itâs mostly the competitive perspective. Â
 37. Marry Evergreen Content with Trending Posts to Boost Visibility
 Itâs not always possible to anticipate news, but you can work your way around the generic dynamic of your industry. Generally, the conversations around this topic make people admit there still are things they need to work on. The high number of comments on every good blog post on the matter is nothing but living proof, as Nirmala Santhakumarâs experience can confirm.
  Letâs talk lifespan. Trending content can bring you thousands of visits in the first few days, only to fade away less than a week later, while evergreen content is a constant and consistent source of traffic for years to come. These two work best in a complementary content marketing strategy, alternating the types of information youâre sharing with your audience to build both visibility and long-term engagement.
 You have to strike a balance. A huge part of this is knowing your industryâs cycle, from the times of the day when people have time to go through long reads to the most important news theyâd be interested in monitoring no matter what. Start from there! Â
 38. Get a Column on an Industry Publication
 It does have a great impact when youâre personal with your audience, but you have to make sure that this doesnât stop them from seeing you as a professional. Itâs crucial to maintain a balance between being perceived as a credible, reliable source and keeping your contact with prospects on a personal level. As Matthew Barby mentioned, pitching is something you have to do scaling the opportunities. You can use BrandMentions for this step. Then, there comes the pitching itself!
  Getting a column on an industry publication (or a publication with an industry topic) is something thatâs multi-beneficial for your traffic. First, because it associates you with the press, which is always flattering for those who read your emails and see you engaged in personal conversations. Second, because it increases your exposure towards prospects you havenât yet achieved and, of course, third, because it is a position that favors an increase in leads. Â
 39. Find Partners in Your Industry
 The condition is basic and it implies that you have a quality audience, and youâre of a similar popularity level with the ones youâre going to close the partnership with. Otherwise, itâs really not worth it to create a blog today and write the Wall Street Journal tomorrow for an exchange of traffic sources.
  Consequently, the partnerships will have to be done taking the needs of the readers into consideration as well, not just to pump up some Analytics numbers. We all know it takes more than that to build a strong brand with increased loyalty. So proceed with care, like Entrepreneur and Unbounce did.
 Fresh sources of traffic can be a huge bummer. Fortunately, there are lots of positive examples that could inspire you to create effective strategies. One of these is finding partners in your industry and it isnât that complicated to pitch, ince any other business would be highly interested in increasing their own traffic. Â
 40. Tell Your Brand Story Through an Honest Appeal to Emotion
 Tomâs Shoes did a great job following this marketing rule of thumb, with an emotional video that presents their brand story through the eyes of their social responsibility. For every pair of shoes sold, the company gives one away to children in need, and generally people with unlucky financial situations in 60+ countries, including the United States.
  The company has 50.5k Youtube followers, 1.97M Twitter follows and the video had over 3.9M views. Something must have been done properly, right? Donât be afraid to use emotion into making your brand more human, your potential customers will empathize. You donât always have to be rational whenever presenting a product to an audience, and it seems as I cannot say this often enough.
 When you give people rational arguments exclusively, they will immediately think of counterarguments. This is how the human brain is wired to respond to rational stimuli, with other rational reactions. However, when you offer your audience a more complex marketing product, with both rational arguments to adhere to your brandâs values presented with an emotional pitching proposition, people will treat it as an experience, not as a theoretical dispute. Â
 41. Pitch Your Business to Influencers on Hacker News
 Tung Tha told his story of a successful posting on Hacker News, by accident. He co-founded and created the TablePlus, a modern, native tool with elegant UI that helps you simultaneously manage multiple databases. They managed to receive 400% daily active users in one day and half of that number still remains until today. Not to mention, they managed to increase their revenue up over 200% compared to the previous month.
  There are some things to take into consideration when it comes to the style of writing, every platform has its secrets and this one is no different from this point of view. Youâll have to be clear and straightforward, without rushing people into information, but without any copywriting-orchestrated delay.
 When it comes to honest information and pitching, being the one to prolong things unnecessarily could even cause more harm than good. So be clear and bold, and donât forget to be honest about the competitive advantages. In their case, it worked: relevancy and honesty had a lot to do with these numbers. Â
 42. Post Questions that Make People Use Their Pride/Creativity/Ego
 Ego bait has always worked, especially when you make it stand out. People love to be appreciated for their work, since they put a lot of time and effort, all with the only purpose of being better professionals who inspire others around them. Of course, thereâs also money, but mostly the ego thing.
  So it always helps when you treat someone as an authoritative source of information. And if you also ask them to be creative while at it, youâve got yourself a winner. Jason Acidre asked influencers what were the most creative ideas for link building that they had ever implemented and the roundup had over 40 people giving advice. Â
 43. Have Social Media Buttons in Your Email Newsletter
 Andrea Kinloch wrote a how-to article to help you include social sharing buttons in your signature.
  People donât really tweet the content of emails, or they rarely do. However, sometimes newsletters are worth sharing with people, especially because they provide unique content to which only some people have access. Creating a connection between you and the reader, a social media button will direct the prospects to a personal page (not a brand profile), where people will be able to create an association between the brand and the awesome guy or chick behind it.
 Donât be reluctant to share some things from your private life with your readers, such as your love for psychological movies or your spirit of adventure. In the end, itâs what makes them loyal, being able to associate a brand with an experience and, further, with a person they like and can empathize with. Â
 44. Grow your Email List on a Daily Basis
 Email marketing has a lot to do with the signatures youâre using, as theyâre a great way to propel your reputation and notoriety when performing outreach strategies. For every outreach email youâre sending, you should be able to incorporate a call to action thatâs subtle. Make sure youâre attracting only people whose intent for your products or services is powerful enough to stick through time. For instance, this example from Sumo explains it well:
  You cannot access a larger audience exclusively through the prospect you connect to on social media, it takes more than this to build long-term relationships with your prospects. Email lists are a more consistent way of engaging with leads, as it serves as proof of their intent when it comes to your product or your content. Â
 45. Write a Response Post to Something/Someone Popular in the Niche
 For instance, when everybody was praising Googleâs new logo, there was a New Yorker article written by Sarah Larson, that had something to say about it, and it was massively popular because it treated something against the stream. Â
  Googleâs new visual identity was expected for a while now, and the Serifs made it look old-fashioned and too traditional for the values it stands for. However, this awesome article brought arguments for the old version of the logo and people loved it!
 Every time when somethingâs gaining a lot of momentum, there will be people disagreeing with it, whose voices will not be heard because of the popular chanting around them. You can always take the time to be that voice for them, but donât do it unless it really represents your position, otherwise, it could backfire later! Â
 Conclusion
There is no such thing as a recipe, and constant traffic is one of those formulas that need to be adjusted and re-adjusted in order to work best in your interest. But tips and detailed guides are always welcome. Follow our 45 proven strategies to increase the number of visitors to your website. Just make sure that they align with your marketing strategy, otherwise, they might do more harm than good, despite the occasional traffic spike. So, which of these tips do you think would help the most? Â
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The 2000-Year-Old Dogma Of Building A Following And Not An Audience
If youâve ever read anything written by me, youâll know that I donât believe in the âGood Old Daysâ.
In fact, those âGood Old Daysâ are light years in front of us. There is no better time than now.
One of my biggest fears is to become that stubborn that I canât learn any more new things. Remember that time you had to explain to your grandparents how Skype works so you could talk to them and they just didnât really understand what you were trying to tell them?
Thatâs one of my biggest fears. Not being able to understand the new technology.
People used to die burned alive for âwitchcraftâ just because we couldnât understand the medical advancements.
The only reason I joined online marketing groups was to be able to know what works NOW.
Turns out that thatâs not the point really.
Although from a tactical point of view, everything seems to be changing year by year, one thing remains the same. And thatâs us, the humans.
We donât evolve that fast as the technology does. Our needs remain the same. In fact, our needs have remained the same in the last at least 2000 years.
And hereâs the proof.
We All Want The Same Thing. But We Phrase It Differently.
Do you know what is the version 1.0 of coaching?
It originated about 2000 years ago. I had no idea what coaching was until last year.
Anyway, Iâm donât consider myself a smart guy. I see the same 6 patterns in my life and do my best to become proficient in those areas.
Iâm a simple man.
In 2011 I started reading books and a friend of mine kept shoving one specific book down my throat. Something about an old Greek/Roman philosophy.
Like I said before. There is no better time to be alive than now. I have no intentions to read about an outdated way of thinking. That doesnât give me any actionable advice.
While people sit and contemplate on philosophy, other people take advantage by taking action.
Anyway, the same book kept popping up over and over again in my news feed and people I followed and respected named that book the biggest influence in both their professional and personal life.
The book was âMeditationsâ by Marcus Aurelius. And that old Greek/Roman philosophy⌠that version 1.0 of coaching is StoicismâŚ
If you ever get to read a book on stoicism youâll see that the concepts are exactly the same. A few techniques changed, we have more insight on other things, but at the base of everything, itâs pretty much the same thing.
But why is that?
Probably because we want the same thing we did 2000 years ago. We want to be happy, content, safe and free.
You may call it more clients, more time etc. But at the bottom of it, itâs the same need.
Our brains are still wired the same way. We havenât changed that much.
âTimes are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.â
â Marcus Tullius Cicero (died 43 BC)
Build A Following, Donât Grow An Audience
Let me ask you this. Why do you want to have more followers on Instagram? Whatâs the purpose of that?
Thereâs only one purpose to growing an audience. And thatâs to grow the probability of getting clients and making sales.
Everything else is just feeding the ego. Vanity metrics.
Hereâs the truth. You have to give people a reason to follow you. You are either entertaining or you are providing some sort of value to someone.
Most coaches provide one of the following two types of content
Short motivational posts with quotes from famous people
Long motivational posts with quotes from famous people
Hereâs the problem with this type of posts.
Itâs not providing any value to anybody. Youâre just being entertaining.
If you want to be known as the âmotivational quotes posting personâ, I guess this is just fine. You will be able to grow a decent audience. A whole bunch of people want to be motivated.
But if you want to be known as a coach that can help people transform their life and their business, itâs better to start building a following.
And for that, youâll need a different approach. A mix between entertaining and providing value.
The Only Way People Used To Grow Their Following 2000 Years Ago
Here are the only two ways you can grow a following:
Preach to more people (aka get more âeyeballsâ)
Have people recommend you to other people (aka organic growth)
Before you start trashing me in the comments section and bashing me for being a noob, just hear me out.
You are overthinking it. You are looking at it from a different perspective. Try looking at it from your customers perspective.
Your customers (aka your followers) are having a problem and you are the only one that can provide the solution. Thatâs it. Thatâs the only perspective you should be looking at it.
There are a bunch of ways to go about this. And to make it easier letâs break it down into 3 different sections
1. Be Clear On Your Values And Beliefs
I speak with a lot of coaches every week. And the number of people who donât have this one figured out is shocking.
Thereâs a huge difference between being a coach and being a facilitator. Not that there is a problem with being either one of those. You just have to be honest with yourself.
Hereâs the thing. To be clear on your values and beliefs is to know your message. Know what you want to be known for.
What is your message that you want to share?
Why are you doing what you are doing?
Why did you want to be a coach to begin with?
All this is part of your brand.
Now, why would you want to get this out of the way before anything else? Because without an answer to those questions you canât have a tribe. You give nothing to your people to hang on too. You are just another motivational quote posting person.
What is that message you want to be known for?
Nobody will follow you without a good reason. Itâs either entertainment or the value you provide.
2. Where Do Your People Hang Out
Back in the Roman times, prophets would climb on a box in the middle of the town square and just preach.
They did that out of obvious reasons. The town square is a very busy place. They had an audience.
The local pub had its own set of preachers. But those guys were talking to a different crowd.
Think of the town square as your social media platform. Where does your audience hang out?
The obvious answer to this is âeverywhereâ. And Iâm serious. Your audience isnât only on LinkedIn or only on Facebook. You can reach decision makers in Fortune 500 companies on Instagram. Thatâs not a problem.
Itâs how you reach them thatâs the problem. Weâll talk about that in a minute.
Some people donât agree with me on this. They consider that their target audience is on one platform. And not on the other.
Well, that is not true. Everybody has a Facebook profile. There are over 2 billion people there.
If they are a business person thereâs a huge chance they are on LinkedIn as well.
If your target audience is a woman, she can also have a Pinterest account.
Depending on the age, your audience may also have an Instagram or Snapchat account.
Iâm willing to bet that you have an account on more than just one social media platform. And if you say that your audience is only on one platform it means that you didnât try reaching your audience on a different platform.
The fact that your Facebook friends arenât your target audience doesnât mean that your target audience isnât on Facebook.
They are. Facebook has 2 billion monthly active usersâŚ
Think about the biggest influencer in your market right now. That person is present on multiple platforms. And you follow that person on at least two different platforms.
That influencer in your market has more than one account for a reason. Because the name of the game is called SYNDICATION.
Itâs not only about creating your message. Itâs about broadcasting it. Which leads me to the next point.
3. Show Up Every day
Having the message and an offer is only half of the equation. Build it and they will come only works if you tell them first.
If you follow any one of the influencers in your market youâll see that they have two things in common.
They are consistent with their message
They show up every day
In a conversation with a friend of mine, we spoke about growing his audience. He has an HR consulting business.
He bragged that he got a bunch of enquiries in just a few weeks by posting a few times online. Itâs clear that it worked for him.
So I asked him âif it worked that good, why not post every day?â
He looked shocked back at me and asked in a high-pitched voice âPost every day?! About what?!â
Funny thing is that he understood the value of posting. The question was not WHY to post every day. But WHAT should he post.
If you know what your message is and you know who your audience is, WHAT you should be posting about will come naturally.
Any type of relationship is built on trust and time. Itâs very hard to convince someone to marry you on the first dateâŚ
Showing up every day providing value to your audience will eventually help you grow that audience. People will see the posts, they will engage with the posts and by the magic of social media, you will reach more people organically.
Building a following is mainly relationship building. And you have to decide what type of relationship you want to have. Either way, in order to build trust in your tribe, besides the regular leadership values, you have to be consistent with your message and with your presence.
Sure, there are a bunch of ways how to go about this. Like I said at the beginning. The techniques change all the time. But at the core everything stays the same. Strategy wise, everything stays the same.
To get you started Iâve put together my fail proof way of putting together the perfect audience growing strategy with content. Itâs my 4 Stages Of A Perfect Content Strategy and you can grab a copy of it below.
Just click on the below and Iâll send you a copy of my 4 Stages Of A Perfect Content Strategy:
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